Il Giardino dei Tarocchi, Pescia Fiorentina, Tuscany, Italy

Mirrored mosaic interior of L'Imperatrice, or the Empress, card no 3, sculpture in Il Giardino dei Tarocchi, a sculpture garden by Niki de Saint Phalle, 1930-2002, based on the esoteric tarot, at Pescia Fiorentina, Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy. The Empress, in the form of a sphinx, is the great goddess, mother, queen of the sky. The artist lived inside the Empress for years during the construction of the garden. Niki de Saint Phalle begun the project in 1979 and it opened in 1998, holding 22 monumental sculptures of the Greater Mysteries of the tarot. The sculptures are made from concrete and covered in ceramic and mirrored mosaic pieces. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Chandelier Concrete Esoteric Femininity Fiorentina Giardino Grosseto Limperatrice Mirrored Monumental Motherhood Mysteries Nana Niki Pescia Phalle Sphinx Tarocchi Tarot Toscana

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